Sonic
Acts XI — The Anthology of Computer Art
23 – 26 februari 2006 – Paradiso / De Balie, Amsterdam
The eleventh edition of the Sonic Acts Festival will be
held from Thursday 23rd to
The three-day conference will
provide a multifaceted and penetrating overview of computer art. International
speakers from computer arts, film, the fine arts, music, the academic world, literature and art history will, from the perspective of
their own background, discuss the historical developments, present the current
position of computer art, and consider its future. Jasia
Reichardt (
Reichardt is
writer and curator and made history in 1968 with the exhibit Cybernetic
Serendipity. Speakers at the conference include Lillian Schwartz
(US), pioneer in the field of computer-generated art and computer films; Curtis
Roads (US), composer and author of the influential Computer Music
Tutorial; Stephen Wilson (US), professor of conceptual design at the
SFSU and author of the authoritative
The festival will start with
performances by Granular Synthesis (AT) and Curtis Roads & Brian
O'Reilly (
The Friday programme is being
compiled in collaboration with Jace Clayton
(a.k.a. DJ/rupture), founder of Negrophonic
and Soot Records, and will include: The Bug feat. Ras B
(Rephlex, UK), Beans (Warp, US), Ghislain Poirier (Chocolate
Industries, CA), Vex'd (Rephlex, UK) , DJ /rupture & No Lay &
G-Kid (Unorthodox, UK), Team Shadetek presents: Heavy Meckle feat. Matt
Shadetek, Sheen, Jammer, Chronik & Ears (Warp / Jah Mek the the
World, UK/US), Hrvatski (Planet Mu, US), Aaron Spectre (Death$ucker,
US), Ove-Naxx (Adaadat, JP), Scotch Egg (Wrong Music, JP),
Doddodo (Adaadat, JP), Drop the Lime (Tigerbeat6, US), Filastine (Soot,
US), Nettle (theAgriculture, ES), 2/5 BZ (Gözel, TU), Gustav (Mosz,
AT), Planning to Rock (ChicksOnSpeed
Records/ Rostron Records, DE), Toktek & MNK (NL).
On Saturday Performances by: Matthew
Dear (
The film programme will look at
purely digital film art with a number of historical overviews, documentaries
and contemporary computer films. Work will also be shown from the archive of
the Institut National Audiovisuel,
Groupe de Recherches des
Images. In two programme series work will be shown from filmmakers such as:
Raymond Hains, Jacques Brissot,
Nicolas Schöffer, Caroline Laure, Marie Claire Petris,
Peter Foldes, Robert Lapoujade
and Piotr Kamler.
Much of this material has never been seen before in the
The exhibition will include a
number of key-works from the pioneers of computer-art, including works by Ben
Laposky, Manfred Mohr, Edward Zajec, Frieder Nake, Tony Longson and Vera
Molnar. Also works will be shown from the Sonic Acts 2006 DVD, by artists
such as: Bart Vegter, Semiconductor, Effekt, Telcosystems
& Jason Haas, Martijn van Boven, C.E.B. Reas, Meta,
Driessens & Verstappen,
Karl Kliem, Chris Musgrave, Peter Luining, reMI, Scott
Pagano & Keepadding,
Kurt Ralske, George Issakidis
and Daniel Perlin & Dj
/rupture.
Sonic Acts XI
Thursday February 23 - Sunday February 26 2006
Paradiso, Weteringschans 6 - 8, Amsterdam, +31206264521
De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen
10, Amsterdam, +31205535100
Conference passepartout: € 45,00 (Thursday February 23,
doors 20:00, start 20:30, location: Paradiso; Friday February 24, Saturday
February 25 & Sunday February 26, doors 12:30, start 13:00, location: De
Balie) – The passepartout is also valid for the performance programme & the
Keynote lecture on Thursday February 23.
Live Performances: € 12,50 incl. (Thursday February 23,
doors: 20:00, start 20:30, Friday February 24 & Saturday February 25 doors:
20:00, start 21:00, location: Paradiso)
Films: € 6,25 (Thursday February 23, 19:30 & 21:00,
Friday February 24, 19:30 & 21:00, Saturday 25, 16:00, 19:30 & 21:00)
Conference tickets are available from
Live Performance tickets are available from January 7 2006
via AUB and online via:
http://www.ticketmaster.nl/html/searchResult.htmI?keyword=sonic+acts&l=EN&x=0&y=0
Film tickets are available from January 14 2006 via De
Balie (+31205535100 between 14.00 and 17.30 during weekdays)